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It was a good weekend for Tom Cruise and "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation." The film not only won, it beat expectations.By beating studio estimates, the movie is doing what many winners are doing this year. They are over-performing....

Sue Webber, who attended Paul McCartney's July 31 performance at Lollapalooza, said the wait to see his show required a lot of endurance from fans. “It was a grueling day for the loyal camped in front of the Samsung Galaxy stage all day...

Few bands embody the word “autonomous” like that of Chicago-based Goodnight Criminals. The electronic pop outfit has been thriving under their own self-direction steadily since 2011 and continue to maintain a distinct voice in an ever...

Named for the town from whence most of its original members came, Chicago is as much a rock and soul institution today as it was a hit-making machine in the swinging ‘70s and big ‘80s.Formed in 1967 by horn players Jimmy Pankow ...

Chicago’s dating scene may soon see an increase in public intoxication, indecent exposure and most troubling, DUIs, that is, dating under the influence. This past July, Governor Bruce Rauner signed the “Culinary and Hospitality...

Shots were fired and a man was wounded early Thursday morning in an eight-hour standoff with the Chicago Police Department and a SWAT team in Bronzeville. At approximately 8 p.m. on Wednesday, sheriff’s officers approached the man’s...

Chicago alderman come up with some of the strangest ideas to alter their part of the Windy City. Tom Tunney, who represents the 44th Ward on the city’s North Side, wants diners to be able to eat and drink in the street. He is proposing to...

Chicago alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa attended and spoke at a protest this morning at the Logan Square Memorial at Milwaukee and Kedzie. A crowd of about 300 heard Ramirez-Rosa slam Chicago Public School's (CPS) planned $4.5 million budget cuts...

Natives have their favorite spot for that thing of delicious beauty - the Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich. The sandwich of splendor and spice since the 1930‘s was, like most great inventions, created by necessity as food needed to be...

Madonna is returning to Chicago in September as part of her upcoming Rebel Heart Tour. Her last visit to the Windy City came in 2012 after the release of her MDNA album, and the show was hit-or-miss due to the Material Girl's insistence on...

"Pixels" proved not worthy of a box office title as it fell to "Ant-Man."Adam Sandler has lost his luster as his new video game action film fell flat. Overseas, though, "Pixels" played much better."Ant-Man"...

Oak Park, a Chicago suburb to the immediate west of Chicago’s notorious West Side, made a hipster’s name for itself back in the day. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a liberal’s delight where liberal views and lifestyles were...

Today’s Seattle Times column by veteran scribe Danny Westneat that discusses the murder of International District icon Donnie Chin last week, and the rise in shootings around the city, relays what seems to be a community frustration about...

On a classic hot summer night in The Woodlands, Texas, a sold-out crowd of (at least) 16,000 people found their choice to brave 100-degree heat as the best decision they'd made all month long. Hearing Earth Wind & Fire and Chicago live in...